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Cities (places)

An epigram can be associated with some places (cities or countries or whatever can have geocoordinates). Epigram 6.13 has no cities associated. Let us look to another epigram:

ep7_81 = requests.get('https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/passages/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg7000.tlg001.ag:7.81').json()

ep7_81['cities']
ep7_81 = requests.get('https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/passages/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg7000.tlg001.ag:7.81').json()

ep7_81['cities']

[{'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/cities/45/',
'names': [{'name': 'Lindus', 'language': 'eng'}]},
{'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/cities/61/',
'names': [{'name': 'Atenas', 'language': 'por'},
{'name': 'Classical Athens', 'language': 'eng'},
{'name': 'Antigua Atenas', 'language': 'spa'},
{'name': 'Athènes', 'language': 'fra'},
{'name': 'Atene', 'language': 'ita'},
{'name': 'Athenae antiquae', 'language': 'lat'}]},
{'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/cities/73/',
'names': [{'name': 'Sparta', 'language': 'eng'},
{'name': 'Sparte', 'language': 'fra'},
{'name': 'Esparta', 'language': 'spa'},
{'name': 'Sparta', 'language': 'ita'},
{'name': 'Sparta', 'language': 'lat'},
{'name': 'Esparta', 'language': 'por'}]},
{'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/cities/78/',
'names': [{'name': 'Antigua Corinto', 'language': 'spa'},
{'name': 'Ancient Corinth', 'language': 'eng'},
{'name': 'Corinthe antique', 'language': 'fra'},
{'name': 'Corinto', 'language': 'ita'}]},
{'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/cities/89/',
'names': [{'name': 'Mytilene', 'language': 'eng'},
{'name': 'Mytilène', 'language': 'fra'},
{'name': 'Mitilene', 'language': 'spa'},
{'name': 'Mitilene', 'language': 'ita'},
{'name': 'Mytilene', 'language': 'lat'}]},
{'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/cities/128/',
'names': [{'name': 'Milet', 'language': 'fra'},
{'name': 'Mileto', 'language': 'spa'},
{'name': 'Mileto', 'language': 'por'},
{'name': 'Mileto', 'language': 'ita'},
{'name': 'Miletus', 'language': 'eng'},
{'name': 'Miletus', 'language': 'lat'},
{'name': 'Mileto', 'language': 'spa'},
{'name': 'Mileto', 'language': 'por'},
{'name': 'Milet', 'language': 'fra'},
{'name': 'Mileto', 'language': 'ita'},
{'name': 'Miletus', 'language': 'eng'},
{'name': 'Miletus', 'language': 'lat'}]},
{'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/cities/129/',
'names': [{'name': 'Priene', 'language': 'eng'},
{'name': 'Priene', 'language': 'spa'},
{'name': 'Priène', 'language': 'fra'},
{'name': 'Priene', 'language': 'ita'},
{'name': 'Priene', 'language': 'por'},
{'name': 'Priene', 'language': 'lat'}]}]

And let us have a look to one of these cities:

Mytilene = requests.get('https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/cities/89').json()

Mytilene
{'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/cities/89/',
'names': [{'name': 'Mytilene', 'language': 'eng'},
{'name': 'Mytilène', 'language': 'fra'},
{'name': 'Mitilene', 'language': 'spa'},
{'name': 'Mitilene', 'language': 'ita'},
{'name': 'Mytilene', 'language': 'lat'}],
'alternative_urns': ['https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42295059',
'https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/550763'],
'unique_id': 95,
'longitude': None,
'latitude': None,
'descriptions': [],
'created_at': '2021-09-09T19:09:12.954728Z',
'updated_at': '2021-09-09T19:09:12.954734Z'}